2025 Bears Offseason Thread

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I know this is just a cherry-picked training camp video, but...

 

 

[CubinNY]

20 hours ago, JudasIscariotTheBird said:

I know this is just a cherry-picked training camp video, but...

 

 

lol, that is real, real bad. 

[UMFan83]

There's another video on twitter of Caleb nailing the drill also.  Not gonna share it because I can't find on BlueSky but yeah training camp video.

[Wilson A2000]

Edited August 5, 2025 by Wilson A2000

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Love it

[mul21]

5 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

[Derwood]

It's all great until someone gets a season-ending injury

[minnesotacubsfan]

way to be a wet blanket derwood

[Brian707]

Much better than the Eberflus country club

[NorthsideAvenger]

15 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Love it

When your team is starting to fight each other, it is time for them to see new faces. So come on down, Miami Dolphins.

[We Got The Whole 9]

It really sounds like Trapilo could take the LT position. That would be pretty insane to have 4 new starters.

[BigSlick]

i am in danger of becoming a Bears Fatalist and just see nothing really working or mattering and the team will just be mediocre-to-bad with flashes of competence every once in a while like a 2001 or 2018 season, but hell, I really do hope that Johnson can break the Bears Spell. 

[Tryptamine]

It's just so strange to me that in a season with a hundred things to be optimistic about, this is the one where the fans and media seem overwhelmingly negative.

[minnesotacubsfan]

18 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

It really sounds like Trapilo could take the LT position. That would be pretty insane to have 4 new starters.

Jones might be better suited for swing tackle anyway

 

[UMFan83]

2 hours ago, BigSlick said:

i am in danger of becoming a Bears Fatalist and just see nothing really working or mattering and the team will just be mediocre-to-bad with flashes of competence every once in a while like a 2001 or 2018 season, but hell, I really do hope that Johnson can break the Bears Spell. 

If someone people described as a generational QB and someone described as  the hottest head coaching prospect in several years/offensive mastermind can’t figure it out, yeah it’s gonna be very difficult to get excited about the Bears for a while. 

i feel decently confident that its gonna work out though

Edited August 7, 2025 by UMFan83

[Thurman Merman]

It's probably not fair to Caleb given the crap he had to deal with last year, but right now I'm much more confident they got the head coach hire right than the QB.

[CubinNY]

5 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

If someone people described as a generational QB and someone described as  the hottest head coaching prospect in several years/offensive mastermind can’t figure it out, yeah it’s gonna be very difficult to get excited about the Bears for a while. 

i feel decently confident that its gonna work out though

A great QB can make a mediocre team better. A great coach can make a bad team mediocre. A GM can ruin both by not building an infrastructure to support them. The Bears are trying but I’m not sure Poles is accomplishing it. 

[minnesotacubsfan]

videos of Caleb missing a target from 10  yards in training camp doesnt really bother me. my guess is he had a hangover or some dumb thing. Its training camp and vastly different from staring down a 330 lb dt while finding an open reciever at NFL game speed, and hes done that fine in the past.

 

 

[Wilson A2000]

Caleb and a lot of the starters not playing on Sunday. Seems odd.

[Derwood]

9 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Caleb and a lot of the starters not playing on Sunday. Seems odd.

It's been a mixed bag in the first week. Burrow played, Jackson didn't. No Hurts for Philly. Geno threw 3 passes for Vegas. No starters in the HoF game

[mul21]

10 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Caleb and a lot of the starters not playing on Sunday. Seems odd.

It's really not.  The starters will get the bulk of the work in a somewhat controlled environment in the joint practice Friday and not playing in the game after going through one of those has kind of become the norm these days.

[Brian707]

28 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Caleb and a lot of the starters not playing on Sunday. Seems odd.

My kids have been asking me to take them a game for a year. I picked a Sunday preseason so its not a big deal to leave at halftime. Now, Im debating even going with it supposed to be over 90 degrees

 

 

[UMFan83]

25 minutes ago, mul21 said:

It's really not.  The starters will get the bulk of the work in a somewhat controlled environment in the joint practice Friday and not playing in the game after going through one of those has kind of become the norm these days.

Don't we have joint practices with the Bills next week? Are they gonna sit that game too?

Overall I'd prefer Caleb plays a series or two but I'm not flipping out about it.   I know other Bears QBs have looked rusty after limited preseason playing time, but they were coached by Nagy and Eberflus.  I trust Ben Johnson to have his players ready to go until he gives me a reason not to trust him.

[Derwood]

The preseason exists only to make money these days. Teams are not using it the way it was intended (which fine, that's up to them). I wouldn't spend a dime to go see 4th stringers

[BigSlick]

Are joint practices kind of a new thing? I feel like I never heard about them until recently. Seems like it would be kind of hard to navigate because why would you want to give more scouting opportunities to opponents? (Though I assume you almost never have joint practices with teams that are on your schedule that year)